Reminiscences of Richard Walker Bolling, 1983

Biographical Note

Congressman

Scope and Contents

Background and early education; Army duty in Pacific, 1941-1946, on General MacArthur's staff; vice chairman of American Veterans Committee, 1946-1947; election to United States House of Representatives, 1948; political problems of first term; functioning of the House of Representatives, 1948-1982: committee work on Banking, Joint Economic and Rules committees, civil rights; legislative strategy of Kennedy administration; impressions of Presidents Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, and John F. Kennedy; Sam Rayburn and other political leaders

Subjects

• Bolling, Richard, 1916-1991--Interviews.
• Civil rights--United States.
• Democratic Party (U.S.)
• Edwin, Ed, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Legislators--United States--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
• United States. Congress--Committees.
• United States. Congress--Powers and duties.
• United States. Congress. House.
• World War, 1939-1945.

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Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1989